School Notes

• Aiken County Public Schools will have its preliminary event to the Scripps National Spelling Bee at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the URS Center for the Performing Arts on Newberry Street in Aiken. The participants include 12 winners from grades five to eight from semifinal spelling bees held throughout the school district, area private schools and Aiken County Home School Association. The event is free and open to the public.

• First-semester report cards will be issued during report card conference night 4-7 p.m. Thursday. Parents will have a chance to talk with teachers and review their child’s grades. Report cards that aren’t picked up will be sent home the following day.

• Friday is a teacher workday. Students will not have school.

• The next board of directors meeting is 6 p.m. Monday in the school’s conference room.

• Congratulations to Michael Havasy for placing second in the Area 2 Spelling Bee. He will compete in the Aiken County Public Schools preliminary to the Scripps National Spelling Bee at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the URS Center for the Performing Arts in Aiken. Joyce Bernardino also competed in the Area 2 Spelling Bee and placed third. She will be the Area 2 alternate at the district spelling bee.

• There will be an alumni basketball game Friday. Alumni are asked to fill out an update form and mail, fax or e-mail it to josephdmartin@jesusgivesmevictory.com. The form is on the school’s Web site, www.jesusgivesmevictory.com.